A Book About Network Television in the late 1940s and early 1950s, by Andrew Lee Fielding. Published in 2007 by BearManor Media. See also: www.luckystrikepapers.com

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

"Inside USA with Chevrolet," additional picture

This is another photograph from the magazine article, referred to in the prior post, about Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, and their early television show Inside USA with Chevrolet (1949-1950, CBS-TV).

The picture features, left-to-right, the television show's producer (and the noted composer) Arthur Schwartz; Mary Healy; and Peter Lind Hayes. As the caption notes, of Schwartz, Healy, and Hayes: "All have discovered that this new medium demands terrific stamina."

(As noted in the previous post, I do not know who took the magazine story's photographs.)

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"The Lucky Strike Papers"--subtitled "Journeys Through My Mother's Television Past"--profiles such early network television shows as "Your Hit Parade" (also known as "The Lucky Strike Hit Parade"), "Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge," and "The Freddy Martin Show." Author Andrew Fielding's late mother, Sue Bennett, sang on these programs, and others, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

About Me

Andrew Fielding has written for The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Providence Journal, The Philadelphia Daily News, Horizon Magazine, and other publications. He has also worked as a radio talk show host--in Philadelphia, in suburban Philadelphia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in northern New Jersey. Most recently, he was, for three years, the host of a weekly talk show on a nostalgia-oriented Internet radio station. His book about early television, "The Lucky Strike Papers," was published in December, 2007 by BearManor Media. A revised edition of the book is forthcoming.